February 2015 Babies

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Back pain or back labor?

missashlouise wrote:

I've been in severe pain for the past 2 hours and cannot sleep at all. My mid and lower back is killingggg me. I'm almost in tears. I can't even take deep breaths.

I don't know if anyone else has been experiencing this or if any STM on here that can shed some light on if these are preterm labor pains or not.

Im not experiencing any BHC no cramping and my water has leaked or broken. I also haven't been on my feet a lot not have I been doing anything to cause a physical back pain. But on a scale of one to ten this would be an 8.

With my first I had 2.5 days of bad back pain just before my water broke so it could be early labor. It could also just be the baby pressing on a nerve. Give your doctor a call just to be safe. I found that taking a warm bath was the most helpful for the pain.

Take some tylenol and use a heating pad. My back hurts constantly. In my experience with L&D and calling about back pain, if you're not having any other symptoms they tell you to stay home and do what I suggested. But I also have awful L&D nurses.

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leslieg110

I had back labor with my first, and it was accompanied by major contractions/tightening of the uterus as well. Based on my personal experience, you would not even have to question if it were back pain or actual labor. You would KNOW it was labor without a shadow of a doubt because of the amount of pain. That being said, that was my own experience and everyone is different. If you're concerned it's definitely worth a call to see what your doctor says.

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joSpud

I had back labor with my first, albeit at 41 weeks. I didn't know I was in labor and was scheduled for an induction that day luckily. I had no contractions just really bad back pain. I was 5cm when we went in. No harm in checking it out.

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nikielle

There was a post on here yesterday or the day before of a lady who was 35 weeks preggers was having back pain... And decided to head to the hospital and she wasn't even in the hospital for 12 mins before her baby was born!

I had really bad back labor with my daughter. The contractions started in my back and would then spread around to the front, so my belly did get hard and the contractions are rhythmical. But, I was full term and past due. I don't know how they'd feel as preterm contractions...

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4Greaf

I had back labor with my kids and have never had horrible contractions. Every time I went to doctor and the nurses would just look at me I like I was stupid and say "well honey your in labor...... Don't you feel your contractions looking at the monitor". Well no I don't so let's have a baby!!! 3 times in a row lol

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cmmangan

I would take some Tylenol and lay on a heat pad. That is actually what I'm doing right now.

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